ISC BIND 9.10.0 Recursive Nameserver DoS
Medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 8247
Synopsis
The remote DNS server may be affected by a remote denial of service vulnerability.
Description
The version of ISC BIND detected on this server is affected by a programming error in the prefetch feature, which can be leveraged by an attacker to crash the affected application with a 'REQUIRE' assertion failure in the 'name.c' file. This issue namely affects recursive nameservers, of which NNM detected relevant traffic from this server.
Solution
BIND 9.10.0-P1 was released by the vendor to fix this vulnerability. Apply the vendor update, or update to a later version.